shelling

Example Sentences

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Mark paid Williams £44,000 - but ended up shelling out an extra £20,000 to get the job finished without him.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

And the palace is shelling out for more expensive cybersecurity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Even if a new grad is paying rent to their parents, it will likely be less than they’d be shelling out if they were living on their own.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

She has to stretch each of her dollars to make ends meet; soon she’ll be shelling out $30,000 a year for her daughter to go to college.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

On the table, there were mounds and mounds of walnuts, and the squirrels were all working away like mad, shelling the walnuts at a tremendous speed.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl